Interesting Facts About Sushma Swaraj: Sushma swaraj (14 February 1952 – 6 August 2019) was an Indian politician ,former External Affairs Minister and a Supreme Court lawyer. A senior leader of Bharatiya Janata Party, Swaraj served as the Minister of External Affairs of India in the first Narendra Modi government (2014 – 2019). At the age of 25, she became the youngest cabinet minister of Indian state of Haryana. She also served as 5th Chief Minister of Delhi for a short duration in 1998. Daughter of Hardev Sharma and Shrimati Laxmi Devi and Wife of Swaraj Kaushal.
Interesting Facts About Sushma Swaraj:
- Completed her graduation in B.A with Political Science and Sanskrit as major Subjects from the S.D College of Ambala Cantonment, Haryana.
- She did a degree course in LL.B. from the Department of Laws of the Punjab University at Chandigarh.
- 1970- She received the Best Student Award from S.D. College.
- The best Cadet ofN.C.C .of the S.D college for three Consecutive Years.
Her Career:
- 1973- Started practice as an advocate in the Supreme court of India.
- Started with the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad in the 1970s, she turned out to be an integral part of George Fernandes’s legal defense team during 1975.
- She actively participated in Jayaprakash Narayanan’s Total Revolution Movement.
- She joined the Bharatiya Janata Party and became a national leader of the BJP.
Achievements:
- In 1977, at the age of 25 years, She became the youngest Cabinet Minister in India
- In 1979, at the age of 27, she became the Janata party’s State President in Haryana
- She holds record of becoming the first woman spokesperson of a national-level political party.
- She holds credit of becoming the first Woman Chief Minister Of Delhi and also the first woman Union Cabinet Minister.
- Served as a member of Parliament for Seven times.
- The Firstwomen Leader Of Opposition.
- Second woman to take charge of the foreign ministry after Indira Gandhi.
- Information and Broadcasting Minister in the 13-day Atal Bihari Vajpayee government in 1996 .
- Swaraj also held the portfolios of Telecommunication,Health and Family Welfare, and Parliamentary Affairs in the Union Cabinet.
- During her tenure as the external affairs minister, she handled several strategically-sensitive issues, including Indo-Pak and Sino-India relations(china & india ).
- Her role in resolving the prickly Doklam standoff between the Indian and Chinese sides will be remembered.
- India’s joining of the SCO was a key achievement during her tenure.
Awards:
- Best Speaker Award by the Haryana state Assembly
- Best parliamentarian Award twice in 2008 and 2010. She is the first ever and only women MP to receive the outstanding parliamentarian award.
- Conferred with “Grand Cross of Order of Civil Merit” award in Spain.
Her Last Tweet:
She was a favourite on Twitter during her term in office responding to calls and messages of distress from Indians all over the world.She expressed delight over the passing of key bills pertaining to Jammu, Kashmir and Ladakh and thanked Prime Minister Narendra Modi for the same.
“Thank you Prime Minister. Thank you very much. I was waiting to see this day in my lifetime,” Swaraj tweeted .
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